Spool-holder



(No Model. L. P. OARLE.

SPOOL HOLDER.

No. 539,118. Patented May 14, 1895.

WITNEEEEE: INVENTUR UNITE STAT S PATENT ()E I E.

LEON P. CABLE, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ANDREWEDEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,118, dated May 14, 1895.

Application filed March 30,1894. Serial No. 505,688. (No model.)

122 all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON P. CABLE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spool-Holding Garment Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient spool-holding device for attachment to a garment, as for example a ladys dress, which will hold a spool of thread in convenient position, so that the thread can be readily drawn off from the same. Such an arrangement has the advantage of keeping thespool always at hand.

To the above end, the invention consists in novel features of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings, which form partof this specification, illustrate an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 shows the device as it would appear in use. Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the device detached.

The article is composed of a single piece of suitable material, as wire, which is made into an-attachin g pin of the safety type, and also a spool-holding arm.

' to an open position; (1, a hook formed by doubling the wire and bendingit over, and adapted to receive the pointed end of the pin and confine the same against the action of the spring 0 and also to cover the point, said parts a, b, c, and d constituting a safety-pin.

6 represents an arm which extends substantially at right angles to the pin-supporting arm a and is a continuation of one member of the double hook d.

f represents a spool-supporting arm extending at right angles to the arm e and substantially parallel with the members a b of the safety-pin; and 9 represents a bent end-piece on the arm f.

- The arm f is inserted through the bore of the spool, and the bent end g by extending over the end of the spool prevents the same from slipping off. It will be seen that the spool is free to rotate'on the arm f. The attachment may be applied to the garment wherever desired, by inserting the pin 1) through the fabric and engaging it with the hook cl.

It will be seen that the device is simple and inexpensive in construction, and can be attached to the garment and will hold the spool so that the thread can be easily drawn off from the same.

The parallel arrangement of the arm fan the members a b of the safety-pin enables the spool to be supported with its axis of rotation extending horizontally, by attaching the safety-pin to the supporting garment in a horizontal position, the spool being suspended naturally in this position by the safety-pin. The spool horizontally arranged delivers the thread without liability of the thread falling upon and becoming entangled with the arm f.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A spool-holding garment attachment formed of a single piece of wire, comprising a pin 1), a pin-supporting arm a, a spring 0 between the arm and pin, apin-confining hook dformed of .a portion of the wire doubled laterally upon'itself, said parts a b c d constituting a safety-pin, an arm e extending as a continuation of one member of said hook, and aspoolholding arm f extending from said arm 6 substantially parallel with the parts a b of the safety-pin, the arm having a bent end which projects upwardly when the safety-pin is supported horizontally, and confines the spool on said arm.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the'presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1894.

LEON P. OARLE.

Witnesses:

- .0. F. BROWN, G. I. KELSEY. 

